Library Journal articles from August 2011

Library Journal archives from August 2011

Librarian-publisher dialog: a new series.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Many will complain that this is a pointless exercise; that the library mission clashes with publishers' mandates to fatten bottom lines. As someone who has had a front-row seat to the last decade's explosion of new...

Xpress reviews: first look at new books.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(review of Habibi)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... "Verdict: The exquisite beauty and deep magic of this Arabian Nights-style love story cannot be overstated. More mature and psychologically nuanced than Blankets, it's a sure bet for as many awards. With extensive nudity and sexual themes, it is...

Ebook romance: LJ takes the plunge.(ON THE WEB: www.libraryjournal.com)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With ebooks here to stay--just ask any devoted romance reader--LJ has jumped into the ebook waters with reviews of e-original and e-only romances, including Lauren Dane's Once and Again (Samhain) and Shannon Stacey's...

Publisher-librarian dialog: natural allies in the book world.(Editorial)
August 1, 2011... WHILE THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA) appoints task forces on ebooks that get mired in bureaucracy, the real worlds of book publishing and libraries move ahead rapidly, both struggling with budgets, changing mission, even survival. The...

Renewing our mission: for kids seeking "a purpose beyond money".(blatant berry)(social mission of libraries)
August 1, 2011... I'VE BEEN A PETE HAMILL FAN FOR DECADES, AND I've met him a few times. We're close in age, so I recognize the New York City that he writes about in his latest novel, Tabloid City (Little, Brown, May). I think I know the difference between the...

Libraries in New York City avoid massive cuts.(news desk: News highlights from LJ's continuing online coverage, daily at LibraryJournal.com)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Funding for New York City's three library systems have emerged comparatively unscathed this budget season. The city council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg reached an agreement June 29 that will appropriate $301.4 million in city funding for all...

New CEO takes over at Proquest.(news desk: News highlights from LJ's continuing online coverage, daily at LibraryJournal.com)(chief executive officer Kurt Sanford)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... ProQuest LLC has announced a change in its top ranks. According to a company press release, Kurt Sanford joined the firm on July 13 as chief executive officer and as a member of its Board of Directors. He will succeed Marty Kahn, who will become...

Funding still iffy in California.(news desk: News highlights from LJ's continuing online coverage, daily at LibraryJournal.com)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed the FY12 California state budget on June 30, the last day of the fiscal year, and it contains a double dose of bad news for public library funding. The budget also contains massive reductions to the state's higher...

Funding for digital information platform at risk.(news desk: News highlights from LJ's continuing online coverage, daily at LibraryJournal.com)
August 1, 2011... On July 22, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2551, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012, by a 252-159 vote. Unless the Senate acts, the bill would reduce the Government Printing Office's (GPO) budget for FY12 by 20 percent to...

Tennessee plans to revamp regional library system.(news desk: News highlights from LJ's continuing online coverage, daily at LibraryJournal.com)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Tennessee is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to modernize its system of regional library centers by spring 2012. The project would decrease the number of centers from 12 to nine and lead to a sharp reduction in staffing, but it will also...

Open information activist indicted in JSTOR case.(news desk: News highlights from LJ's continuing online coverage, daily at LibraryJournal.com)(Aaron Swartz)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Aaron Swartz, former tech lead for the Internet Archive's Open Library project and founder of the progressive activist group Demand Progress, was indicted on July 19 in federal court for allegedly stealing approximately 4.8 million articles from...

As town heads to bankruptcy, library closes.(news desk: News highlights from LJ's continuing online coverage, daily at LibraryJournal.com)(Central Falls, Rhode Island)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... The Central Falls Free Public Library (CFFPL), RI, closed its doors July 1, a victim of the city's large debt burdens. The city of 18,716 people has been in receivership since May 2010 in an effort to avoid bankruptcy. While CFFPL's last annual...

Miami-Dade libraries get reprieve from closures.(news desk: News highlights from LJ's continuing online coverage, daily at LibraryJournal.com)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Thirteen libraries in Florida's Greater Miami County area--more than one-quarter of the entire Miami-Dade Public Library System--were rescued from closure under a revised budget that received an important approval on July 19. The original...

Western New York Library Resources Council.(people)(Karlen Chase)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Karlen Chase has been appointed Digital Services and Circuit Librarian, Western New York Library Resources Council (WNYLRC), Buffalo. She previously was part-time Circuit Librarian for WNYLRC's Hospital Library Services Program.

Project MUSE.(people)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Terry Ehling is now Associate Director, Content Development and Publisher Relations, Project MUSE, as of August 1. Most recently, she was Scholarly Publishing Strategist, Cornell University Press.

Qun Fang.(people)(Kansas City Business Journal nonprofit organization chief financial officer of the Year)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Qun Fang, CFO, Mid-Continent Public Library (MCPL), Independence, MO, was designated CFO of the Year in the nonprofit organization category by Kansas City Business Journal. Fang was previously awarded four times a Certificate of Achievement for...

Denver Public Library.(people)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Rachel Fewell is the new Collection Services Manager, Denver Public Library. She most recently was Collection Development Manager, Anythink Libraries, Rangeview Library District, Thornton, CO.

Logan Library.(people)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Ronald Jenkins retired at the end of July from his position as Director, Logan Library, UT, after more than 30 years of service. His successor is Robert Shupe, formerly Director, Mohave County Library, Kingman, AZ.

Stetson University.(people)(Betty Drees Johnson)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Betty Drees Johnson, Library Director and Professor, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, will retire August 31 after 50 years of service. She began her career at Stetson University as Student Library Assistant in the 1950s and became Acquisitions...

San Bernardino County.(people)(Ed Kieczykowski)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Ed Kieczykowski, retired County Librarian, San Bernardino County, CA, a position he held for 17 years, has taken on a new assignment as the first Director of the Santa Clarita Public Library, CA. The city of Santa Clarita withdrew from the...

Milwaukee Public Library.(people)(Paula Kiely)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Paula Kiely, Director, Milwaukee Public Library, was named a 2011 Woman of Influence by Milwaukee's The Business Journal. Kiely was one of two winners in the Public Policy category, one of ten categories that attracted a total of 130 submissions.

Meg Knodl.(people)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Meg Knodl, Senior Librarian in Communications and Community Engagement, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, and a 2011 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, will devote one day a week as Coworking Librarian at CoCo, a Coworking and Collaborative...

State Library of Ohio.(people)(Eric Maynard)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Eric Maynard has joined the staff of the State Library of Ohio as Systems Analyst I, Information Systems and Technology Group. He formerly worked at Holmes County Public Library, Millersburg,

U.S. Naval War College.(people)(Terry Metz)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Terry Metz, Library Director and Professor, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI, has been named University Librarian, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, effective September 1. He succeeds Merrily Taylor, who retired in 2010.

Newcomerstown Public Library.(people)(Greg Romer)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Greg Romer is now Director, Newcomerstown Public Library, OH. He was Adult Services Librarian, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, KS.

South Dakota State University.(people)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Kristi Tornquist is now Chief University Librarian, South Dakota State University, Brookings, replacing David Gleim, who retired.

Obituary.(Alexandra "Sandy" Mason)(Obituary)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Alexandra "Sandy" Mason, former Spencer Librarian, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, Lawrence, has died; she was 80. Mason began her career at the library in 1957. She was appointed Head of Special Collections in 1963 and...

Ala tech overview: focusing on patrons.(ALA CONFERENCE REPORT)(American Library Association)
August 1, 2011... Ask the average attendee of the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference in New Orleans, and he or she will say that ebooks and ereaders were the biggest story on the show floor, thanks to new developments from 3M and OverDrive,...

eReader touts Google eBookstore integration.(infotech)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The iriver Story HD, the first ereader to be integrated with the Google eBooks platform, went on sale (initially only at Target department stores and Target.com) on July 17. The ereader allows Wi-Fi search and...

Universities to give access to orphan works.(infotech)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... The University of Michigan (UM) Library announced in June that it will soon begin making digital versions of orphan works in its collection available to the UM community--setting precedent for the fair use of orphan works that could influence...

Innovative announces early adopters of Sierra ILS.(infotech)(integrated library system)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Library automation company Innovative Interfaces (III) announced agreements in July with 25 academic and public libraries to become partners in or early implementers of its Sierra Services Platform development initiative. Sierra is III'S...

OCLC CEO Jay Jordan to retire in 2012.(infotecho)(OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... At the ALA conference, OCLC announced the retirement of its longtime president and CEO Jay Jordan, to take effect June 30, 2012. OCLC board chair Larry Alford, who made the announcement in New Orleans during the OCLC President's Luncheon on June...

Infotech briefs.(INFOTECH)
August 1, 2011... Several companies announced new products and services ahead of or at the ALA conference: Polaris Library Systems unveiled its new Polaris PowerPAC public access catalog interface at ALA. New features will include searchable community profiles...

Sf/fantasy's epic journey: high fantasy makes a comeback, sf searches for a renaissance.(GENRE SPOTLIGHT)(science fiction/ fantasy)
August 1, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There's an important difference between setting trends and chasing them, and a look at 2011's crop of fantasy and sf finds publishers on the healthy side of the line. Proud of cases where they've been ahead of the curve...

Big picture, real takeaways: attendees get fresh perspectives to bring home.(LJ REPORT: ALA NEW ORLEANS: 2011)(Conference notes)
August 1, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The American Library Association (ALA) once again held its annual conference among the tall sugar pines and moss-covered vines of New Orleans, and the locale resonated with attendees. Throughout the conference, which...

Open source reality check: implementation experience reveals pros and cons.
August 1, 2011... In 2009, East Brunswick Public Library (EBPL), NJ, switched from a proprietary integrated library system (ILS), SirsiDynix's Horizon, to an open source Koha ILS. In 2010, it switched back. When the library moved to open source, a lot of...

The act of creating.(Collection Development: Trendy Crafts)(Viewpoint essay)
August 1, 2011... It's hard to pinpoint when the current frenzy for handmade works began, but people young and old have embraced the DIY spirit. It's a pleasurable experience to create something with your own hands that's beautiful, fun, or useful. Some crafters...

Caldwell, Joseph. The Pig Comes to Dinner.(The Pig Did It; The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Caldwell, Joseph. The Pig Comes to Dinner. 6 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 7 1/2 hrs. ISBN 9781611744170. * Caldwell, Joseph. The Pig Did It. 6 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 6 1/2 hrs. ISBN 9781611744156. * Caldwell, Joseph. The Pig Goes to...

George, Margaret. Elizabeth I.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... George, Margaret. Elizabeth I. 25 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 31 hrs. Books on Tape. 2011. ISBN 9780307933041. $49.95; 25 CDs. retail ed. Penguin Audio; Playaway digital; digital download. F George's (The Autobiography of Henry VIII;...

Herbert, Brian & Kevin J. Anderson. Hellhole.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Herbert, Brian & Kevin J. Anderson. Hellhole. 15 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 19 1/4 hrs. Macmillan Audio from AudioGO. 2011. ISBN 9780792774754. $99.95; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; 15 CDs. retail ed. Macmillan Audio; digital download. F ...

Kirkpatrick, Jane. The Daughter's Walk.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Kirkpatrick, Jane. The Daughter's Walk. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 1/4 hrs. Books on Tape. 2011. ISBN 9780307881663. $45; digital download. Random Audio. F Kirkpatrick (An Absence So Great) delivers an inspirational historical...

McKinty, Adrian. Falling Glass.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... McKinty, Adrian. Falling Glass. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2011. ISBN 9781441769671. $105; 8 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F In McKinty's (The Dead Yard) tenth...

Obreht, Tea. The Tiger's Wife.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Obreht, Tea. The Tiger's Wife. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 1/2 hrs. Books on Tape. 2011. ISBN 9780307877024. $40; 9 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. F Natalia tells stories of her growing up in a country divided by the...

O'Donovan, Gerard. The Priest.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... O'Donovan, Gerard. The Priest. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 hrs. Dreamscape Audio. 2011. ISBN 9781611200720. $44.99; digital download. F Inspector Mike Mulcahy has returned to Ireland from a detail in Madrid, arriving just in time to...

Ozick, Cynthia. Foreign Bodies.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Ozick, Cynthia. Foreign Bodies. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8 3/4 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2011. ISBN 9781449825645. $77.75; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Ozick reworks Henry James's The Ambassadors, setting it...

Tantor Audio.(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Tantor Audio has added eight new titles to its line of classic audios and ebooks, including several noted philosophy and psych titles making their audiobook debut. The new titles include Franz Kafka's The Trial, James Joyce's Dubliners, Hume's...

Random House Audio.(Jim Dale)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Random House Audio has snagged Grammy Award-winning narrator Jim Dale for Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, which will be released by Doubleday this fall. Dale, who is best known for his narration of the Harry Potter series, which made him a...

Penguin Audio.(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Penguin Audio is reissuing a number of its holdings by Nobel laureate John Steinbeck. The programs include newly remastered editions or previously available works, plus several titles never before available as audiobooks. Of the existing titles,...

Alexander Street Press.(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Alexander Street Press has added upwards of 22,500 recordings from noted classical music publisher EMI and its Virgin Classics and Angel Records sublabels to its Classical Music Library, the publisher's award-winning streaming music collection...

Pascal, Francine. Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... Pascal, Francine. Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 1/2 hrs. Macmillan Audio from AudioGO. 2011. ISBN 9780792774853. $59.95; 6 CDs. retail ed. Macmillan Audio; Playaway digital; digital download. F ...

Rankin, Ian. The Complaints.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Rankin, Ian. The Complaints. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 1/4 hrs. Hachette Audio from AudioGO. 2011. ISBN 9781609416546. $79.99; Playaway digital; digital download. F Internationally best-selling author/Edgar Award winner Rankin's...

West, Stanley Gordon. Blind Your Ponies.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... West, Stanley Gordon. Blind Your Ponies. 15 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 19 1/4 hrs. HighBridge Audio. 2011. ISBN 9781611744392. $84; 15 CDs. retail ed.; digital download. F This novel by West (Amos: To Ride a Dead Horse) originally was...

Connors, Philip. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Connors, Philip. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2011. ISBN 9781441782120. $69; 7 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; Playaway digital; digital...

Douglass, James W. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... Douglass, James W. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. 18 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 22 1/2 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2011. ISBN 9781452632087. $131.99; 18 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; digital download. BIOG ...

Eden, Barbara with Wendy Leigh. Jeannie Out of the Bottle.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... Eden, Barbara with Wendy Leigh. Jeannie Out of the Bottle. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 1/4 hrs. Books on Tape. 2011. ISBN 9780307914367. $35; 6 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. TV/AUTOBIOG [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Actress...

ElBaradei, Mohamed. The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... ElBaradei, Mohamed. The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 1/2 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2011. ISBN 9781452632261. $83.99; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed; digital download. POL SCI ...

Janet Martin: Tech Services Librarian, Southern Pines Public Library, NC.(AUDIO: REVIEWER OF THE YEAR)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A self-described audiobook missionary, Janet has reviewed over 70 audios for LJ during the past eight years, carving out room in her schedule by listening while commuting, exercising, and even knitting. in Janet's own...

MacLaine, Shirley. I'm Over All That; And Other Confessions.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * MacLaine, Shirley. I'm Over All That; And Other Confessions. 5 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 5 1/2 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2011. ISBN 9781461805748. $72.75; 5 CDs. retail ed. S. & S. Audio; digital download. FILM/ AUTOBIOG Actress MacLaine...

Martin, L.J.: Killing Cancer: A Layman's Look at Killing Cancer from a Two Time Cancer Survivor.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Martin, L.J. Killing Cancer: A Layman's Look at Killing Cancer from a Two Time Cancer Survivor. 3 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 3 hrs. Books in Motion. 2011. ISBN 9781605488547. $19.99; 3 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; digital...

Moliere. The Bungler.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... * Moliere. The Bungler. 2 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 2 hrs. L.A. Theatre Works. 2011. ISBN 9781580818049. $25.95; digital download. DRAMA L.A. Theatre Works delivers another delightful production of a Moliere play. In this one, his earliest...

Tyler, Steven & David Dalton. Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... Tyler, Steven & David Dalton. Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 hrs. HarperAudio. 2011. ISBN 9780061841972. $52.75; 12 CDs. retail ed.; digital download. MUSIC/AUTOBIOG [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Wade, Jeremy. River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones That Didn't Get Away.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Wade, Jeremy. River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones That Didn't Get Away. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 1/2 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2011. ISBN 9781449854973. $92.75; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. SCI Wade...

Wenborn, Neil. Napoleon--in a Nutshell.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
August 1, 2011... * Wenborn, Neil. Napoleon--in a Nutshell 1 CD. retail ed. unabridged. 1 1/4 hrs. Naxos Audio. 2011. ISBN 97818437925216. $14.98; digital download. HIST Napoleon Bonaparte is undoubtedly one of the most famous historical figures of all time,...

The Bretts: The Complete Collection.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... The Bretts: The Complete Collection. 2 vols. 6 discs, color. 16+ hrs. Roland Wilson & others, ITV Global Entertainment, dist. by Acorn Media, 888-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2011. DVD ISBN 9781598286809. $59.99. SDH subtitles. F This...

I.M. Pei: Building China Modern.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... * I.M. Pei: Building China Modern. colon 95+ min. Anne Makepeace, ITVS, dist. by Bullfrog Films, 800-543-3764; www.bullfrogfilms.com. 2010. DVD ISBN 9781594589669. $295 (Rental: $85). Public performance; SDH subtitles. Public library discounts...

Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas; Writers.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas; Writers. 4 vols. boxed set. colon 432+ min. WNET New York, dist. by Athena Learning, 888-870-8047; www.acornonline.com. 2011. DVD ISBN 9781598285291. $79.99. SDH subtitles. LIT Veteran journalist Bill Moyers...

Joan Pedzich: Harris Beach PLLC, Pittsford, NY.(VIDEO: REVIEWER OF THE YEAR)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A reviewer for LJ Video Reviews for more than 20 years, Joan Pedzich, director of library services at Harris Beach PLLC, was initially invaluable for her expertise in criminology and legal matters. Through wheedling...

Facts On File.(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Reference publisher Facts On File has bolstered its Modern World History Online database, which covers world history from the mid-15th century to the present day, with a range of primary source video content, including a new video gallery and...

Milestone Film & Video.(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... June 7 marked the launch of Milestone Film & Video's new Milestone-on-Demand video line. The inaugural releases include David Hockney and Philip Haas's A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, Yevgeni Tsymbal's Dziga and His...

Wolfgang's Vault.(www. wolfgangsvault.com/video)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... Wolfgang's Vault, an online archive of live music recordings and memorabilia, recently launched Video Vault, which consolidates for the first time a collection of over 4000 restored concert videos from the past 50 years, many previously unseen....

NPD Group.(Blu-ray player)(Brief article)
August 1, 2011... According to a new report issued by the research firm NPD Group (ow.ly/5L7iq), sales to U.S. consumers of Blu-ray players for the 2011 first quarter rose by nine percent over the first quarter of 2010. NPD attributes this uptick in part to lower...

A New Kind of Listening.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... * A New Kind of Listening. colon 57 min. w/ English subtitles. Kenny Dalsheimer, The Groove Prods., film@anewkindoflistening.com. 2010. DVD $199.95. Public performance; home version $19.95 + $5 s/h. PERFORMING ARTS/DISABILITIES Theater...

US Open: Federer vs. Djokovic; 2010 Men's Semifinal.(US Open: Nadal vs. Djokovic - 2010 Men's Final; Wimbledon: The 2010 Finals)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... US Open: Federer vs. Djokevic; 2010 Men's Semifinal. 177 min. U.S. Tennis Assn. DVD ISBN 9780769790404. $24.99. US Open: Nadal vs. Djokovic: 2010 Men's Final. 207 min. U.S. Tennis Assn. DVD ISBN 9780769790411. $24.99. Wimbledon: The 2010...

The King Speaks.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... The King Speaks. color & b/w. 50 min. David Barrie, dist. by BFS Entertainment, www.bfsent.com. 2011. DVD UPC 066805310782. $19.98. BIOG/HIST [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Finding one's own voice, figuratively speaking, can be difficult, even...

Diabolique.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... Diabolique. b/w. 116+ min. In French w/ English subtitles. Criterion Collection. 1954. DVD ISBN 9781604654158. $29.95; Bluray ISBN 9781604654141. $39.95. Cheated on by her abusive husband (Paul Meurisse), the frail-hearted owner of a French...

The Housemaid.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... The Housemaid. color. 107+ min. In Korean w/English subtitles. IFC Films, dist. by MPI Media. DVD ISBN 9780788611605. $24.98. Hired as a nanny for the precocious daughter of a wealthy businessman and his pregnant wife, a naive young woman...

Insignificance.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... Insignificance. color. 108+ min. Criterion Collection. 1985. DVD ISBN 9781604654318. $29.95; Blu-ray ISBN 9781604654301. $39.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Four unidentified but obvious historical figures--Marilyn Monroe (Theresa Russell), Joe...

My Dog Tulip.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... My Dog Tulip. b/w & color. 82+ min. New Yorker Films. 2010. DVD ISBN 9781567304981. $29.95; Blu-ray ISBN 9781567304978. $44.95. Based on British writer J.R. Ackerley's 1956 memoir about a bachelor and his devoted German shepherd, this...

The Romantic Englishwoman.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... The Romantic Englishwoman. color. 116+ min. Kino Intl. 1975. DVD UPC 738329072728. $24.95; Blu-ray UPC 738329076825. $29.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Back in the post-French New Wave period when a certain ambiguity was de rigueur, films like...

Memories of a Dreamer: The Journey of a Political Prisoner.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... Memories of a Dreamer: The Journey of a Political Prisoner. colon 51+ min. In Spanish w/English subtitles. Alisson Larrea, dist. by Choices, www.choicesvideo.net. 2010. DVD ISBN 9781933724307. $24.95. BIOG/INT AFFAIRS This documentary on the...

Retirement Revolution: The New Reality.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... Retirement Revolution: The New Reality. color. 90 min. Buyer Prods. & WTTW National Prods., dist. by PBS Home Video, shoppbs.org/education. 2010. DVD ISBN 9781608831104. $24.99; limited public performance $54.95. GERONTOLOGY Hosted and...

Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... * Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam. color & b/w. 72 min. Tammy Nguyen Lee, Against the Grain Prods., www.againstthegrainproductions.com. 2010. DVD UPC 705105757476. $150; acad. libs. $250. Public performance. INT AFFAIRS/HIST...

Eyes of the Mothman.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... Eyes of the Mothman. 2 discs, color & b/w. 155+ min. Matthew J. Pellowski, Red Line Studios, dist. by Virgil Films, www.virgilfilmsent.com. 2011. DVD UPC 829567074824. $29.99. PARAPSYCH Although this documentary begins painfully slowly,...

Marwencol: When His World Was Stolen, Mark Hogancamp Made a World of His Own.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
August 1, 2011... Marwencol: When His World Was Stolen, Mark Hogancamp Made a World of His Own. color. 84+ min. Jeff Malmberg, Open Face & Different by Design, dist. by Cinema Guild, 800-723-5522; www.cinemaguild. com. 2011. DVD ISBN 9780781513517. $29.95;...